Just purchased RH Linux 7.1 Server: The is no native driver support for this controller. Downloaded drivers from Adaptec and followed installation instructions. Everything is fine until I get to the Installation type. I have tried all of them except upgrade. Mainly I was trying to perform a custom installation. The following error occured: An error has occurred - No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. --------- I followed the step specified by adaptec: 1. Rawrite the image to a floppy 2. Booted cd 3. At welcome I typed expert 4. Prompted for driver disk 5. It saw the correct controller 6. It started anaconda 7. Asked for mouse type 8. Proceeded to welcome in setup 9. Clicked next 10. Asked what type of installation 11. Chose custom. 12. Failed with above error I am new to linux please help...
which driver is this card using from Adaptec?
Redhat Linux 7.0 Boot-time loadable driver version 2.2-1
you're using a 7.0 driver on 7.1?
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See new comment added to Bug 36257. I just got the new 2100S driver for RH Linux 7.1 from Adaptec. It looks like something about loading a device driver at the beginning of the install causes the installer to stop seeing the CD-ROM device, which prevents continuing with the install. While I haven't tried it yet, a possible workaround is to create a boot floppy and boot from it, load the driver, then launch the installer. Comments anyone? bob mcgrath (206) 226-6717